Who’s Afraid of Christmas in 2009?

The Secular Left just does not get it. They are dumbfounded as they have not been able to secularize Christmas.

Many on the Secular Left greatly enjoy Christmas and celebrate it as a non-religious holiday. They like Christmas as a Federal holiday, they like the paid time off from work, but do not want anyone to recognize that Christmas is a Christian Holiday.

The White House was decorated for Christmas this year, including the traditional Christmas trees. However, the decorations were to be of “a non-religious Christmas.” There were plans to even leave the Nativity Scene packed and in storage rather than give the Crèche its traditional place of honor in the East Room. Tradition won out. The Crèche is on display.

Some on the Secular Left throw tantrums because of the tenacity with which the vast majority of us hold onto our Christian beliefs and traditions. They do not understand why the United States does not roll over, accept the abolition of Christmas, close down our churches, and remove the crosses from our cemeteries.

The Secularists have failed in their attacks on Christmas, as they have not even convinced most of their Liberal following. In a poll by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 82% of Americans believe in God and an additional 13% believe in some “higher power.” Rasmussen Reports polls have shown 76% believe religious displays “should be allowed on public land,” 83% “believe public schools should celebrate religious holidays,” and 72% of adults prefer “Merry Christmas” to the 22% who preferred “Happy Holidays.”

Progress is definitely being made on behalf of Christmas. During each of the past few Christmas Seasons, increasing numbers of references to Christmas have appeared in stores. There are more traditional Christmas Carols heard in stores and other public places. “Merry Christmas” is more frequently heard this year.

The Liberal Elite think their superior wisdom, and their control of education and the media, should have already convinced us to become a bunch of pagans. They fantasize we will soon give up our guns, values, morals, and Constitution. They romanticize we will embrace government controlled health care rationing, tolerate failing schools, and become mindless Socialist wimps eager to be euthanized by death panels before becoming a burden on society.

Why do fringe Liberals, Muslim Terrorists, European Socialists, Fascists, and Communists all hate Christianity? What is the common thread that joins them? They desire to control others, and they despise the fact Christianity promotes freedom based on personal responsibility. One can’t have Christianity directing people’s lives. The autocrats will direct our lives.

They especially hate Christmas as it is the most visible manifestation of Christianity and is celebrated by more people than any other holiday. The fact that Christ and Christmas are still so feared and hated can mean only one thing -- Christ really was who He said He was.

The argument of hurting someone’s feelings or making them feel uncomfortable by celebrating Christmas is one of the most powerful Liberal weapons used against Christmas. The Secularists put the feelings of the few above the many, and that is not democracy or Liberty. Their actions are hypocritical, as Liberals demand our tolerance of all their abominable behavior.

The politically correct insist we should value everyone’s culture. As Christianity is the majority culture in our country, should it not also be valued? Are we observing an overdose of Progressive hypocrisy? Just how long are we going to endure the Liberal intolerance of our values?

Nowhere does a “wall of separation of church and state” appear in our Constitution. Most people simply do not know this as they have heard assertions of the existence of the “separation of church and state” for so long. We now anticipate that our Supreme Court will become increasingly more Liberal. Accordingly, our Constitution will be progressively reinterpreted as a judicial legislative tool, further eroding our religious freedoms.

In typical Liberal fashion, the Judicial Left attacks the most vulnerable of our society, our small towns and villages, and our schools. Community and school officials are often terrified or simply unaware of the laws. They cannot afford the time and money to fight the legal challenges. There are also those among them who support the Leftist attack on Christianity.

If The Ten Commandments, moral values, prayer, and Christmas are removed from our public schools, we are in grave danger. Public schools would increasingly pretend to educate students while indoctrinating them with ever more Leftist propaganda.

The Ten Commandments have been removed from courthouses and other places where unsuspecting citizens might be exposed to them. A California school tried to ban The Declaration of Independence from a classroom as The Declaration contained references to God. We certainly can’t have impressionable students exposed to the fact that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” All Socialists know that our rights come from governments.

If we allow Christmas to be taken from our public life and our educational system, if we allow our Constitution to be turned against us, if we fail to be a light of Liberty unto the World, we will also deny freedom to a desperate World that will slip further into darkness. Just like the War on Terror, the Battle for Christmas will be long and difficult.

Let us keep the Secularists in our prayers this Christmas Season and throughout the year. We must hope and pray that our celebration of Christ’s birth each year will encourage many more to share in our joy and to join us in celebration. We can plant seeds of clear thinking, hope, and joy in people’s hearts and minds.

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Dr. May you just don't get it. We atheists understand that the majority of this nation's citizens are Christians. We recognize your right to worship your god as you see fit. We simply want our government to remain neutral in regards to religion.

If you found yourself in the minority you would understand our desires. If the majority of this country's citizens were Muslim, Jewish or Rastafarians you would be offended if we placed menorahs in the public square, held prayers to Haile Selassie before each government meeting or required a Haj before becoming an elected official.

We understand the principle of majority rule while maintaing the respect of minority rights.

Please worship your god in your home and church as is your right. Do not force those that do not believe as you do to pay homage to your chosen deity.

Let's get something straight Dr. May. Your continued spurning of the Democratic party stating they are not Christians, fails to guarantee you a spot in your conservative heaven. In fact quite the opposite is true when you truly have a belief in the teachings. You continually blasphemy of Christianity by comparisons to politically left or right is unexcused. How can you truly claim to be Christian, when you are so very far from the understanding of even the basic concepts. I suggest that next time you get down on bended knee, you ask for forgiveness of your transgressions rather than accuse others of falsehoods not consistent with scripture.

It is alway amusing to see folks getting upset about the use of "Happy Holidays"

Of course the word "Holiday" comes from "Holy Day." So Happy Holidays pretty much covers every religion with "Holy Days"

Of course the holiday term has been broadened to include secular celebrations like "The 4th of July" holiday, etc, etc. and they are not really holy days. Of course May would consider any date celibration of something done by the Founding Fathers, a holy day.

The choice of December to celibrate Christmas was designed by early Christians to replace the pagan celibration of winter solstice. And of course the Christmas tree itself has its roots (pun intended) in pagan worship.

So May, if you have a Christmas tree in your house, you are continuing a pagan tradition.

Christmas trees have nothing to do with pagans other than the shared appreciation of trees and plants that remain green during the winter.

Christians and Jews celebrate their major holidays with food and drink, merriment, and song. So do all other religions. So do people of pagan religions. I am not about to give up the great food celebrations of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

# 6 Please define "liberal elite" and what political party you were referring. Perhaps I missed something. Do you know any Republicans that are Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Agnostic, and Atheist?

Your comment," Socialist Secularism, like economic Socialism, is an equal opportunity deceiver." Again please elaborate on what political party you refer.

#8 You often refer to only a single portion or passage of scripture in a thinly veiled attempt to twist the meaning, much like your post #1 on December 8th, 2009. For one to truly understand, one should read chapter and verses ahead and behind your quotes,then apply the true meaning.

All across the world today, from Copenhagen to Johannesburg, from London to Athens, from Maputo to San Francisco, from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, and yes, even from Midland to Lubbock, from Ft. Worth to Brownsville.... all across the world today the world's Christian churches tolled their bells 350 time in a plea for Christians everywhere to heed God's call for us to be good stewards of the earth that He committed to our care.
Worldwide, North, South, East, West, from the Eastern World, from the ARctic to the Antarctic, people everywhere today contemplate the things we need to do to avoid the environmental catastrophe that might be facing us because of the use of fossil fuels.

This world-wide push should give pause to proponents of environmental destruction such as the lunatic Donald May.

.....The festivities of Christmas originate in the fourth century, when Pope Julius I declared that December 25 would be the celebration of Christ’s birth. This can be seen as an attempt to Christianise Pagan rituals during the darkest days of the year and, as such, much of the folklore surrounding Christmas decoration originates from Pagan tradition.
The Christmas tree, the most popular symbol of the holiday, can be attributed to these early celebrations of winter but the actual decorations came a little later.
Christmas is principally a festival of light and so fire and candles have played an important role in the decoration of homes. Suggesting that “white is best for a restrained, sophisticated look” but at the same time “multi-coloured lights can add real impact to a tree that’s absolutely dripping in mismatched decorations,” David Perez, group buyer for The Conran Shop, highlights a modern take on Christmas lights based on the age old tradition of using candles to illuminate the tree. In addition to their long association with the winter solstice and their ability to provide light in a period of dark, candles affixed to the Christmas tree can be attributed to a story of Martin Luther: after a long night trying to write a sermon, he left for home feeling frustrated with his work. As he walked through the forest and looked at the stars shining among the trees, he was reminded of the wonders of God. Wanting to recreate the scene, he brought a tree inside and fixed candles to its branches. The tradition passed through the generations and, with the advent of modernity, translated into the use of electric lights strung around the tree.

Hmmmm...must be a secret government program to get rid of Christmas.....

Bible Truth for Bible Christians
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Christmas Is Spiritual Adultery
Taking an evergreen tree, putting it in your house, decorating it with lights, sitting in the dark, and adoring it to Christmas carols is spiritual adultery. You profess to love Jesus, but you do so with the mementos and techniques of other lovers – the world and pagan religion. You are not content with Christ's pure gospel – for it has no Mass of Christ. You have added the world's seductions to keep you happy in your marriage to Christ. He is highly offended at your whorish ways.
120 Reasons Against Christmas
There are many Bible reasons not to celebrate Christmas for those who esteem God's precepts concerning all things to be right and that hate every false way (Ps 119:128). The God of heaven has specified exactly how He wants to be worshipped. He does not accept inventions or modifications. And He seeks those who will worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:23-24). You are living in the perilous times of the last days - a time of great compromise by so-called Christians (II Tim 3:1 - 4:5 ). Where do you stand?
How to Stop Celebrating
When the Lord reveals the evil of pagan holy days, there are questions about informing others of the change in your life. Here are a few suggestions to be wise and righteous before God without being unduly antagonistic or offensive to those who cannot see (Rom 12:18; I Cor 7:15).

Where do you and your lunatic fringe cohorts get the idea that liberals are against Christmas? That's so idiotic I just can't believe you think that sx999t.
There ARE secularists in the USA and there ARE atheists, but they are not associated with the left or the liberal movement any more than they are associated with the Republican party.
I get home from church and read this garbage. It's so idiotic to hear nutcase rightwingers say such cr((p about people like me, a liberal and a life-long churchgoer and CHRISTMAS CELEBRATOR.

May was probably one of those people who said in 1964 that they had nothing against non whites, but believed in "property rights," and that anyone who owned property had the right to admit to it whoever they wanted and bar from it whoever they wanted. That would be my guess for his position that year. How old was he then, about 25 or so?

He was probably mainly foaming at the mouth that year hoping for and advocating a nuclear war in Vietnam.
It's interesting how fast he went out and joined the military in order to go over there and fight in that war.... how fast indeed.

According to an Ohio-based outfit called “Operation: Just Say ‘Merry Christmas,’” it is the “enemies of Christmas” who have pushed America to “an all time low point in our nation's history.”

Apparently, these “enemies” include some at the highest levels of government. The greeting card sent recently by President Bush and the First Lady failed to contain the words “Merry Christmas,” instead wishing its 1.4 million recipients a happy “holiday season.” The explanation from Mrs. Bush’s press secretary that the cards “are sent to people of all faiths” is apparently not good enough for those on the right who have decided to use this issue strategically to advance the notion that “Christianity is under attack.”

Joseph Farah, editor of the right-wing web site WorldNetDaily, threw his card in the trash, saying that the president “claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn't act like one.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue suggested Bush was “dumbing down Christmas” and said the Bushes are “no better than the retailers who have lost the will to say 'Merry Christmas.’”

Farah went so far as to demand that the president “apologize to Christians in America and around the world” for cracking a joke about Santa Claus at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree!

The War on Christmas is an alleged campaign to abolish the celebration of Christmas in the United States of America. This campaign allegedly consists of a conspiracy of secularists and powerful liberals as part of a larger effort to secularize Christmas, or to entirely remove Christian influence from American culture. The term "War on Christmas" was first coined by Michael Medved in the 19 December 2001 issue of the newspaper USA Today. While there is significant disagreement over whether a "War on Christmas" exists, the term itself is used by pundits and commentators who either dismiss or accept the theory.

Prominent conservative media commentators John Gibson, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel are the main proponents of the theory. However, many print and television media outlets are skeptical, calling it a conspiracy theory or a deliberate attempt to further a conservative Christian agenda. [1]

Both the alleged War on Christmas and the universally acknowledged conflict between the secular and religious aspects of Christmas and the associated, larger, December holiday season have caused a considerable amount of controversy. The expressions "Happy Holidays", "Season's Greetings", and "Xmas" are commonly given examples of the secularization of Christmas. Other cases cited as being part of the war include dropping or replacing the word "Christmas" in greetings and public statements and bans on Christmas decorations on public property. While the recent controversy over the War on Christmas is mostly restricted to the United States of America, it has become a topic of minor interest in Canada and the United Kingdom as well.
From: http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/War_on_Christmas/id/2015784

Yule or Yule-tide is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. The festival was originally celebrated from late December to early January on a date determined by the lunar Germanic calendar. The festival was placed on December 25 when the Christian (Julian) calendar was adopted. Some historians[who?] claim that the celebration is connected to the Wild Hunt or was influenced by Saturnalia, the Roman winter festival.

Terms etymological equivalent to "Yule" are still used in the Nordic Countries for both the Christian Christmas, but also other religious holidays of the season. In modern times this has gradually led to a more secular tradition under the same name as Christmas. Yule is also used in a lesser extent in English speaking countries to refer to Christmas. Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule. In modern times, Yule is observed as a cultural festival and also with religious rites by some Christians and by some Neopagans

The above entry is in answer to Dr May's assertion that the Christmas tree has nothing to do with pagan celebrations. It is a direct carryover from the Yule tradition of burning the yule log. Instead of burning it, we now decorate it.

The same can be made a case for other of our Christian holidays... Easter and the Easter bunny a direct association from the pagan fertility rites at the spring equinox.

Christians wisely decided that to attempt complete eradication of pagan worship would be met with strong resistance and instead went about absorbing the major dates in pagan festivals as Christian celebrations.

A bunny and eggsThe Easter Bunny (or Easter Hare) is a character depicted as an anthropomorphic rabbit. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter. The Easter Bunny will either put the baskets in a designated place or hide them somewhere in the house for the children to find when they wake up in the morning.

The Easter Bunny is very similar in trait to its Christmas holiday counterpart, Santa Claus, as they both bring gifts to good children on the night before their respective holiday. Its origin, mentioned in print as early as 1620,[1] can be traced to the German fertility goddess Ēostre

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints, but is today largely a secular celebration.